Book description
Bound for Glory is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of
modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic
account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that
followed,and of his subsequent travels in, on,and under trains, in
stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top
downwards Woody Guthrie, the son of a cowboy, was born in 1912 in
rural Oklahoma. When the Depression arrived, Woody hit the road and
travlled round America. He became a folksinger, guitarist, merchant
seaman, actor, artist and broadcaster. Woody Guthrie died in 1967 in
Queen's, New York.
